Y36.44
Y36.44 — War operations involving unarmed hand to hand combat
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Y36.44 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for war operations involving unarmed hand to hand combat. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below. This code also requires a 7th character before it is complete.
This code requires a 7th character
The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category Y36
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Excludes1 — never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
Risk adjustment
Y36.44 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Code to one of these instead Y36.44
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Y36.4. If Y36.44 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- Y36.41War operations involving rubber bullets
- Y36.42War operations involving firearms pellets
- Y36.43War operations involving other firearms discharge
- Y36.45War operations involving combat using blunt or piercing object
- Y36.46War operations involving intentional restriction of air and airway
- Y36.47War operations involving unintentional restriction of air and airway
- Y36.49War operations involving other forms of conventional warfare
Questions about Y36.44
- Is Y36.44 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Y36.44 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Y36.44 sit in the tabular list?
- External causes of morbidity (V00-Y99), in the block Legal intervention, operations of war, military operations, and terrorism (Y35-Y38).
- What cannot be coded together with Y36.44?
- Y36.44 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.